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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Laureate: Poetic commentary on the forthcoming Olympic games in China

From the London Daily Telegraph Blog:

U.S. Senator Barack Obama, herald of hope and change says the Olympics are nothing to do with politics, they are only a game and he will attend the opening ceremony. Yet has anything changed since Tianamen Square over twenty years ago? Are mere words on the line since the Soviets hosted the ‘games’ and were boycotted for their invasion and occupation of Afghanistan? Perhaps we are all just players in a pantomime, consistently repeating a tired and worn out pattern…

Tianamen chess: the dancing dragon’s fiery storm,In dreams, Olympic torch carried from arm to armStiff politic says the flame can do no harm…Only an ember, a game, yet chased by angry swarm.

In dreams, Olympic torch carried from arm to arm,Yet illuminating oppression in light of bloody dawnOnly an ember, a game, yet chased by angry swarm…Dreadful faery light for a fictional animal farm.